Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04
HOW HE SPOTS THEM.
Distin2 uishing Marks Between
Yankee and New Yorker.

Yankee ana New Yorker.
New York Sun: That man | knew
WAS u down-easter as soon rs he spoke"
said the night clerk at one of the largest
uptown hotels. You see, he's from
Springfield, Mass. ! have learned IN
this business that you can't place man
by his looks. l have seen Texan come
in here who looked like down east
Yankee, and l have seen Pine Tree citi
zens who l would have taken my oath
registered l can generally spot Bos-
ton business man the instant he comes
and takes pen to register, but ! can't
tell how, and there is a peculiar kind of
self-assertiveness that stamps the Chicago
hustler.
But / have an infallible locality test
now which have learned by experience.
1 can tell a Yankee or at least one
brought up among Yankees, by his pro.
nunciation, or rather lack of pronuncia.
ton, of the letter r. BY Yankee l mean
a New Englander. A Yankee never says
where. he says 'whaeh.' Just so with
the word here he always pronounces il
'heah.' He will tell you he is putty
we'll, and that the price OF thingsls 'deah.'
He is going to be 'vehy' busy this 'mawn-
ing and when he asks for a horse car
line he always says 'haws caehs.'
"It IS curious thing that in some parts
of the south they do the same
thing, but with a difference of accent
that makes it possible to distinguish be-
tween southerners and New Englanders.
A true New Yorker never slurs his RS,
while in Pennsylvania and all through
the west this letter is even too promi-
| nently trilled. A genuine Pennsylvan-
ian will roll his RS like n Frenchman.
There is a peculiar and ever-failing test
of native New Yorker rs well as natives
within fifty miles of New York, and that's
an apparent inability to pronounce prop.
erly the letters VIII. Instead of why these
people say y, like this: Y, sir, W en- are
you golngs' or, that is very yte house, '
| for white house. or ware are you going:'
! for where; who is hoo and what wat
| A teacher in Columbia college, to
whom 1 spoke of this one day, said that
he had noticed it, and thought it showed
the effect of the early Dutch settlement
| of New York, as the Dutch were not able
to pronounce the diphthong VIII. A
western man always says tnat he
couldn't get to go;' and a peculiar colo
| Guialism of Wisconsin is the invariable
clipping of the participle ending. Thus,
Il shall go ride, or, L wish my head
would stop ache or, 4 have been drink
too much
Zone day there was n man who
stumped me. He came down from his
room just rs | was going off duty in the
| morning and said What time Is the
bank taken upy' had to ask him what,
bank, and then what he meant. He in
| tended to ask me what time the bank
opened. he was from Indiana, and
| found that there they say taken up when
we would say opened, as school Is taken
up at o o'clock, or the bar is taken up at
6 q. m Yes, language; accent, colo.
| QuialisnS are much better test of a
mans home than clothes, figure. or
manners"
Extraordinary Contempt of Court
London Telegraph: An extraordinary
| incident has Just occurred at the Rouen
court of appeals. Three men who had
been sentenced to various terms of i'm
prisonment at Havre appealed to the
Rouen court. They were brought in to-
gether, ana on the first prisoner being
he replied, Yes, do SO to see if the Ro.
uen judges are rs great rascals as those
of Havre."
This piece of impudence produced a
great sensation, and the man was forth
with condemned to one years !mprison'
ment for insulting the magistrates.
What was the general surprise when
the second prisoner, on beng asked the
same question, returned an identical re
ply. This time the judge dealt out q
double penalty, and he was sent off with
two years Imprisonment to his book.
No one dreamt that the third mar
would dare to face the court in this inso
lent fashion after the punishment to
which his two companions had beer
treated, and a thrill of amazement rar
through the audience when. in answer
to tho formal query, Have you ap
pealeds" he returned the same reply
"Yes: did so to see if the Rouen judges
are as great rascals as those of Havre.
The court sentenced this man to three
years in prison.
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